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Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working — Pablo Picasso
Before I went to graduate school for poetry, I went to graduate school for translation. For a while, I even thought of myself as a translator first, writer second. This did not last—I am not a very good translator—but the experience did form me as a reader and writer. Translators have to be accountable for every idiom, every reference, every syntac
... See moreMay I keep singing my song even if no one is listening, knowing it will find its way to whatever it needs to resonate with. May I never stop dancing, so that my dance will move people’s hearts and help them shake off their own burdens too.
Made In Cosmos (Maria Górska-Piszek) • Solstice Prayer
“Inertia is the stubborn resistance of the universe to change. It’s the reason why objects at rest tend to stay at rest and objects in motion tend to stay in motion. You can think of inertia as the guardian of the status quo.
At its core, inertia is a property of mass. The more massive an object is, the more it resists changes to its state of motion
... See more“Compromise on small things but stand firm on important principles. By not sweating the small stuff, you build goodwill and save your influence for when it matters.”
“The advice I like to give anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work.
All the best ideas come out of the process
... See moreThe best writing prompt for when I'm stuck is simply "be more honest".
“We tell ourselves we don’t speak the truth because we don’t want to hurt others, but it’s far more likely that we don’t want to bear the consequences of our choices.
We tell a white lie to a friend that we’re “busy” the night they ask us to do something when we don’t feel like going. We don’t tell our partner we’re mentally and emotionally checked
... See moreInspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists generally. There is, has been, and will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It’s made up of all those who’ve consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. It may include doctors, teachers, gardeners – and I could list a hundred mo
... See moreWislawa Szymborska • The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996
